Hello, Wrimos! It’s Week 2. Which means I’ve gotten to the part of my outline where I’m like, “Meh, I don’t want to write that scene.” Which is hard for me because I write in chronological order. I make outlines and lists that I follow. I need to know what happens in the scene before… Continue reading NaNoWriMo 2015 {Week 2}
Hello, Wrimos! We are fully into the first week of NaNoWriMo! HOORAY, WORDS! I am happy to say that my first four days have gone pretty well. I was nervous about this year. Compared to last year, when I crushed NaNoWriMo, I now have a full-time job which means that I can’t just write all… Continue reading NaNoWriMo 2015, Week One
It’s that time again. We are quickly approaching November, aka Novel Novel Writing Month, aka NaNoWriMo. As with years past, I am participating again, working my way to write a staggering 50,000 words in just 30 days. This year I’ll be writing the next Taking Flight book (shocker, I know) and I can already tell… Continue reading NaNoWriMo 2015!
Hello, my dears! Welcome to Revising 101, wherein I share the joys of revising with you and hopefully shed a little bit of light on this process. Which basically means that I tell you how I revise and you can ponder whether or not I’m crazy. So! Here we are. You have finished drafting your… Continue reading Revising 101
Hello, Wrimos! Good news! NaNoWriMo is OVER! So. Now that November is done and we are fully into December, you might be sitting around basking in the glory of having started writing a book. Or you might be sitting around thinking, “Wait, okay, so I wrote 50,000 (Or 75,000 or 30,000 or whatever) words. That… Continue reading NaNoWriMo is Over! Now What?
WRIMOS! We are almost done! FOUR MORE DAYS! Soon we will all be doing this. But. It’s not quite time for dancing yet. Because we still have four more days to go. For some of us, this is TERRIFYING NEWS because we are way behind on our word counts and are feeling the heat of… Continue reading NaNoWriMo, Week Four
Wrimos assemble! It’s week two, the week in which things sometimes start to get hard. You’ve set the scene. You’ve built the world. You’ve introduced your characters. The love interests have met or the adversaries have had a stand off or the alien and the astronaut have become friends or the guy randomly turned into… Continue reading NaNoWriMo, Week Two.
Learning how to ride the struggle bus without making it your home and giving yourself permission to write crap.
Guys. I did it! After signing up for Camp NaNoWriMo at the last minute, against my better judgment, I met my goal of writing 30,000 words during the month of July. In fact, I surpassed the goal. By a lot. (By about 25,000 words. But who’s counting?) And though the manuscript is an unfinished, unpolished, unimpressive… Continue reading Camp NaNoWriMo, We Did the Damn Thing.
Because I’m insane, I signed up for Camp NaNoWriMo‘s July session. This is insanity because during the month of July I’m : Leaving my stable publishing job Taking a road trip from NYC to Arkansas with my dog Attempting to not have panic attacks every day In addition to those three things, I’ll be writing… Continue reading Camp NaNoWriMo, Here I Come!
